Imaging Studies of Characteristics for a Slab of a Lossy Left-handed Material

Details Imaging Studies of Characteristics for a Slab of a Lossy Left-handed Material Imaging Studies of Characteristics for a Slab of a Lossy Left-handed Material

2003-03-19

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0303072v1

Physics

Optics

15 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0375-9601(03)00168-3

The characteristics of an imaging system formed by a slab of a lossy left-handed material (LHM) are studied. The transfer function of the LHM imaging system is written in an appropriate product form with each term having a clear physical interpretation. A tiny loss of the LHM may suppress the transmission of evanescent waves through the LHM slab and this is explained physically. An analytical expression for the resolution of the imaging system is derived. It is shown that it is impossible to make a subwavelength imaging by using a realistic LHM imaging system unless the LHM slab is much thinner than the wavelength.

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